21st Century Learning Skills


Below are the resources from Dr. Aumiller's Institute Day presentation on 21st Century Skills.

Slides from Dr. Aumiller's Presentation:




  • Route 21 is an online companion to the 21st Century Skills website, detailing curricular
    connections for these skills [Link]
  • Thinkfinity is an organization with a great database of lesson ideas, related to 21st Century Skills [Link]

  • A great deal of the resources presented were developed by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills [Link]
  • The transition brief, sent to President Obama from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills [Link]

Books Cited in The Presentation:


Growing Up Digital: The rise of the net generation (1998) Don Tapscott McGraw Hill publishers

FAB: The coming revolution on your desktop from personal computers to personal fabrication (2005) Neil Gershenfeld
Basis Books (Perseus Books Group)

The Extreme Future: The top trends that will reshape the world for the next 5, 10, and 20 years (2006) James Canton Dutton publishers

A Whole New Mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future (2006) Daniel Pink
The Berkely Publishing Group

The Art and Science of Teaching: A comprehensive framework for effective instruction (2007) Robert Marzano ASCD publishers

Transforming Classroom Practice: Professional development strategies in educational technology (2008) Borthwick & Pierson
ISTE publishers

Reinventing Project-based Learning: Your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age (2007) Boss & Krauss ISTE publishers

Anticipate the School You Want: Futurizing K-12 education (2008) Arthur Shostak
Rowman & Littlefield Education publishers